HUMA 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Orientalizing Period, Reining, Lex Curiata De Imperio
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Later 3rd c. roans began to write literature (texts with self-conscious artistic aim in mind) under influence of greek literature. Rome wrote of its history, and greeks did as their power rose in the mediterranean. Validity accessed with information to writers and methods to convey it. Evidence shows it would have been difficult to understand. Supposedly oral traditions with the odd stray document. Annalas maximi chronology surviving from pre-literacy period, was an influence on early roman historians. Register of annual events kept by the head of roman board of priests pontifex maximus . Whitewash boards on display near his public office. When something worth recording occurred, it was listed under the date it occurred. No passage of laws or decrees of the senate were listed. Information was copied down in more manageable form, and eventually compiled into 80 books. It included records going back to the foundation of the city (the republic began around book 11)
